[PLUG] (st_uid=1000)

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 05:19:52 UTC 2008


Good! Although 0755 or say 1755 are different from just 755 :)

Drew

On 12/8/08, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:32:50 -0800
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>> > Looking at the desktop, the /usr/lib/virtualbox permissions are
>> > rwxr-xr-x, which I think translates to 755. I chmod'd the folder to
>> > that on the laptop, but 755 set it to rwsr-xr-x, and I still get the
>> > same error message when I try to launch Virtualbox. I can't figure out
>> > what the "s" is in there or how to change it to "x." (Set user ID?)
>> > I've googled almost to the end of the internet and Google seems to have
>> > run out of answers. Or maybe Google is just sick of me.
>> >
>> > Oh, and I also reinstalled Virtualbox from Synaptic, but no joy.
>
>> John you need 0755 the setuid bit is set. This 0755 will remove it.
>
> I had already set it to 755, but still got the error message. While
> puzzling over it I suddenly noticed that there was a folder in
> the /usr/lib/virtualbox folder that was owned by me. Further checking
> revealed that it is a new folder added by the upgrade to Virtualbox
> 2.0.4. I chowned it to root, and voilà!
>
> Virtualbox is now running same as before - my W2000 installation is
> exactly as it was.
>
> Thanks for the response. It made me look at the folder one more time. :)
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